The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
GASTON BACHELARDMan is an imagining being.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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Man is an imagining being.
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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